GRADE 4 Name: Regular verbs usually change from present to past tense by adding ed (or just a d sometimes) For example: paint – painted; carry – carried; revise - revised Irregular verbs do not follow this rule. For example: sing - sang 1. Change these verbs to the past tense and then circle the ones that are irregular verbs. a) learn __________________ f) stretch _____________________ b) serve __________________ g) shout _____________________ c) eat ____________________ h) drive ______________________ d) marry __________________ h) sleep _____________________ e) run ____________________ i) create _____________________ 2. Read this fable and rewrite it in the past tense. Circle the irregular verbs. What is the moral of the story? The cat discovers many mice in the house that night. She begins to catch and eat them, one by one. The mice are nervous. They fear for their lives. They huddle together in their holes. The cat decides to trick them to come out because she is very hungry. She hangs on to a light that hangs from the roof and pretends to be dead. One mouse peeps out and sees her hanging there as though she is dead. The mouse says, “Dear cat, although you look as though you are dead, we will not come near you.“ 3. Complete these sentences in the past tense. 1. The mice _________________ (tremble) when they _______ (see) the cat. 2. The cat ___________(smiles) and _________ (licks) her lips. 3. The mice ___________(run) to their holes and ______( shake) with fear. © e-classroom 2015 www.e-classroom.co.za Grade 4 Term 2 Weeks 5&6 : English, Home Language; Language structures and conventions, Regular-irregular-verbs PG 4 Regular and irregular verbs